presentations

A few years back high streets of the land were chock full of smiling students accosting their prey. That week, I’d seen the Greenpeace campaign against Lego. Their crime was not focused on ubiquitous tiny plastic bricks. It was that they’d gone into a partnership with Shell. Evil,

I flicked through a print edition of London’s Times. As the pages unfurled past my thumb, this photo stood out. It was so different to any other image in the paper. Its colours were uniquely bold, manufactured and contrasting. Despite the image crossing over the two page spread and

[https://twitter.com/instituteforgov] This think tank knows the value of the more unconventional graphic. It is a mindset we’d do well to embrace with our presentation of numbers. (Please don’t be put off if you’re wary that they’re Leftist and Europhiliac; it’s about our

[http://<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-01/aramco-s-big-reveal-what-we-learned-about-the-saudi-oil-giant"] Bloomberg are normally on point with their graphics. This week, the world’s greatest ever profits were revealed by the despotically-run Saudi state oil firm, Aramco. As you can see above, a sideways barchart the reporter’

[https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/18/ubs-space-travel-and-space-tourism-a-23-billion-business-in-a-decade.html] Well, looks like we’re not going to get the personal jetpacks promised us way back in the 60s when James Bond had one already. But we are apparently due to magically transport ourselves to the other side of the world

Arh, Brexit. I blog this on the day after The Speaker of the House of Commons invokes a precedent from the year 1604. He states there can be no MV3 (a third meaningful vote – you have to admire the branding) in the foreseeable. The ever partial BBC describe this pretty

From a viewpoint of what we might take for our own solution sales presentation, recent Mobile World Congress graphics have become fairly underwhelming. About time for an update on my previous entry [http://salespodder.com/little-progress-on-mwc-slide-runway/]. Firstly, I always like to see the odd word and number writ large on

[https://blog.sellingpower.com/gg/2019/01/five-things-you-do-wrong-in-product-demos.html] > you gotta be kiddin’… That was my immediate thought when seeing this slide. 8 minutes? How about 8 seconds! If you go 7m59s without any “engaging moment”, your demo audience will likely have zoned out. Lucky even, that they’re

[nbim.no] The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund belongs to … Norway. Currently valued at a cool one trillion dollars. The envy of the planet. In what other country would their ring-fenced (in this case oil) tax revenues starting forty years ago still remain not only intact, but grown exponentially